Garbage In Garbage Out : Tech Blog

Did you upgrade to Maya 2010 because you found that you couldn’t install Maya 2009 on Snow Leopard 10.6? Are you finding that Maya 2010 on Snow Leopard is flakey, giving you lots of rainbow beach balls? No worries. Ian Herzog over on MacLearning.org has the answer, and it’s simple as tweaking the Maya 2009 [...]

Why does Microsoft feel compelled to sponsor the link at the top of competitor Google’s search page for the term “Bing”, when the first organic search result (and 8 of the first ten) is bing.com?

Recently my Roku, attached to a new Airport Extreme 802.11n Dual Band II router, started having problems streaming HD content from both Netflix and Amazon video. It also had intermittent quality problems with SD content as well. In the past, it performed flawlessly.
Network tests (ranging from the obligatory Speed Test to ping and traceroute) seemed [...]

I’m happy to announce to readers of my blog that I’ve just launched a new music community. While branded as a service for Cincinnati musicians, it fundamentally is capable for providing a really rich community for musicians globally. Check it out — it’s free: http://grooveriver.com

Excited at the prospect of using Flip Ultra and Flip Mino cameras and uploading the video via Podcast Producer, I was disappointed to discover that both Flip cameras wrap their video in AVI files, and use the 3ivx codec, effectively thwarting my Podcast Producer plans. Videos uploaded via the Podcast Capture utility resulted in audio-only [...]

Searching for GarageBand ‘09 topics this morning, I noticed a pattern — one that’s virtually impossible to notice given Google’s new self-appointed role of protector of digital humanity.
Every link is flagged as “This site may harm your computer” — even trusted pages on the topic, such as pages on Apple.com. Any attempt to visit the [...]

Somehow this article didn’t get posted when I wrote it in May of 2008. Nevertheless, it’s still mighty cool, the whole notion of individual jet-powered human flight. Strap on wings, a turbo fan, and get your flight on!

Apple’s Teams Wiki Server supports very few HTML tags out of the box, in order to keep things simple. But, like Any Good Unix Ought To, Mac OS X Server gives you the ability to manipulated things, such as adding iframe, embed, param, and object tags to the Wiki/Blog server. Here’s how:

Here is a handy collection of regular expressions, for use with PHP preg_match. If you need to check for properly formatted US states (two letters), US ZIP codes, US phone numbers, US Social Security Numbers, URLs for web sites, and properly formatted email addresses, read on:

Changing domains around on your web server can leave you with a local DNS cache that doesn’t match your domain’s new settings. Flush your DNS cache on Mac OS X 10.5 by issuing the following command:
dscacheutil -flushcache